Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Religious Pluralism
- Classical Sociology
- religion
would
eventually
dissappear
- society would
become more
rational,
science more
tangible
- evidence of Religious Pluralism
- New Religious Movements
- growth of older
religions i.e.
Pentecostalism,
Mormonism
- Religious
fundamentalism in
all major religions
- Multi-Culturalism
- variety of faiths
- Islam, Jewish, Hindus,
Sikhs, West Indian
Pentacostalists
- Plurality of ideas and beliefs
- Berger & Kellner (1981)
- pre-industrial societies
had religion to provide a
"fixed universe of
meaning"/single core
set of beliefs
- Berger (1990)
- "Nomos"
- feeling of
meaningfulness
religion helps bring
- "Anomie"
- views of media,
work place etc
come into conflict
with traditional
views (Feeling of
meaningless)
- People question what
they have been told as
true/what's passed as
acceptable knowledge by
religion
- What is it?
- refers to Christian and non-Christian beliefs
- mainstream religions
no long appeal to
everybody
- results in "market
place" of religions to
pick and choose
from.
- Civic Religion
- Growth in most
Traditional
religions has
ceased
- Rituals belonging to Orthodox
religion haven't stopped
- Christmas, Easter etc
- celebration
of the nation
state
- Royal weddings, funerals
and rememberance days
have sacred element to
them